After such a successful Civil War program last year, I really wanted to try my hand at designing and planning my own discussion series. I thought picking Jack Kerouac would be an easy way to test my skills and boy was it. I wouldn’t call it a fail because it was an amazing program, but [...]
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For a few years I have gone on to librarians about a need for a scholarly journal about failing in libraries. I really think we don’t consider the importance of our failures as learning experiences. Most of the time they get ignored in favor of things that did work. Librarians love to pat themselves on [...]
For the past week and a half I have spent a lot of time getting news updates about the Boston Marathon Bombings, the hunt for those who committed these acts, the stand-off on Friday, and the interrogation of the young man they took into custody. I found myself really relying on Wikipedia for updates. Most of the [...]
Last spring semester I ran the Civil War reading and discussion series. This was a fantastic program and I knew, even as I reflected on how it went, that I wanted to do another. This had technically been my second time running the Let’s Talk About It series from the American Library Association. I was interested in [...]
Reflections On My Webinar
Posted in Work on Sep 18th, 2012
With all the work I have been doing to write an article about public programming in academic libraries, an interesting opportunity came up for me to co-present as part of a webinar to help promote the ALA’s new Muslim Journey’s Bookshelf. In exchange for a lovely collection of books, videos, and even a e-reference book [...]
One of my goals for the year is to start the process that will end with a scholarly articles. A few months ago I was going to focus on publishing from the thesis. That was before my June break. Since then, now returning to work on the thesis, I never really want to look at [...]
Book Review: Townie
Posted in book_review, Work on Jul 11th, 2012
Title: Townie Author: Andre Dubus III I had an interesting conversation about this book with one of the English Dept professors. I read this book because it is the Fall 2012 Common Text for UMass Lowell freshmen. This professor was really angry about this book. When I asked why she told me she was upset [...]
I love the end of the fiscal year. Last year I did a reflection post at this same point in time. I am a bit tired of posting knitting project. I thought I would ramble a bit and make you read it. What has happened since my last mid-year review? Meh, who cares! What is [...]
Last year at this time I found out I got the ALA and NEA’s Let’s Talk About It grant to run the reading and discussion series about the American Civil War. Some of you kept up with how things went either because you talk to me all the time or because you read what I [...]
Book Review: America’s War by Edward Ayers
Posted in book_review, Reading, Work on Feb 29th, 2012
Title: America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries Author: Edward L. Ayers This book was created specifically for the Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War program the ALA and NEA are running in libraries this year. This is the book we are reading for [...]
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